I have several articles that I found that would help answer my potential research questions. I have narrowed a few down and I will focus on “Should Financial Institutions Implement Blockchain for Cloud Security?”

Subject Searching

To start my search in the Forsyth Library I chose the drop-down of “Company/Industry Info” and Business Source Premier as my searching database. With a Boolean search I chose the words cloud AND blockchain. This resulted in 583 results. I narrowed this down further by choosing peer-reviewed and full text documents with 23 results. Within these results I found the article “Auditing Cloud-Based Blockchain Accounting Systems.”

The article above could potentially be useful because it is looking at how Blockchain can help audit transactions between a public/semi-private Blockchain. Majority of the 23 articles found were all useful and are ones I have used previously for my documentation as well. In the article chosen there were 37 cited references and this database was cited 5 times.

Citation Trace

The articles to citation trace were hard to do, some I found I did not have access to, so I could not get the information required on this course. Others had an FHSU link instead of a DOI and when I tried to search the link, I did not have access to the article. I finally found one, “The Role of IT Governance Practices in Creating Business Value in SMEs” the title was slightly different but upon researching the article was updated with a volume from 1 to 2. In order to find this article I use the Computer Science database and this one had 43 articles cited. I could not find how many sources cited this article on the computer science search. I did not find this one as useful but the others could potentially be useful if I could find them in the databases.

References

Appelbaum, D., and Nehmer, R. A. (2020). Auditing cloud-based blockchain accounting systems. Journal of Information Systems 34 (2): 5–21. https://doi.org/10.2308/isys-52660

Wilkin, C. (2012). The role of IT governance practices in creating business value in SMEs. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC), 24(2), 1-17. http://doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2012040101